Institute Staff

The Institute of Current World Affairs shares past fellows’ work from the around the web.

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• WPR: Robbie Corey-Boulet on Mali’s turbulent presidential election campaign
  And other stories making headlines in Africa....

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• NYT: Shannon Sims on Zanzibar’s revolutionary female soccer team
  Told they couldn't play soccer, the women responded by forming a team....

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• The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Iran pushing conflict on the Israeli-Syrian border
  Concern growing in Israel as the Syrian civil war reaches its denouement, ...

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• Germans face influx of refugees… in 1958
  As an ICWA fellow during the Cold War, NYT correspondent David Binder found a previous migrant wave to be a boon for the West....

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• The Nation: Karina Piser on a thwarted terrorist plot and deep-rooted Islamophobia in France
  The reaction may be another example of the right-wing wave sweeping Europe....

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• Reuters: Gregory Feifer on European fears over the Trump-Putin summit
  Uncertainty about where the Trump administration is ultimately heading is shaking a continent swept up in an anti-immigrant, right-wing populist tide....

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• The New Republic: Matt Chitwood on rural Chinese attitudes toward the US
  As Washington launches a trade war with Beijing, China's farmers see US tariffs as an act of aggression....

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• Democracy in Europe group calls on NATO to protect democratic institutions
  ICWA director joins foreign policy experts and former officials ahead of the alliance’s summit....

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• Rolling Stone: ‘This is not about policy, this is about right and wrong.’
  Pramila Jayapal on immigration....

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• World Politics Review: Robbie Corey-Boulet on the controversial US presence in West Africa
  Secrecy is affecting the region’s fragile democracies....

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